two-soldi

Updated: June 28, 2025

At the moment something HAD touched a Borodino and in the most vital of spots. This was nothing less than the heart of young Vittorio, the pride and hope of his father. He had seen the "Rose of the Shipyards," as she was now called, pass the traghetto of the Molo, off which lay his gondola awaiting custom, it was on one of the days when the two-soldi boy acted as chaperon, and his end had come.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women